I have a belated prayer request. Last Wednesday, after receiving the news of Grandpa’s death, my family learned that my Uncle Darrell, who is married to my dad’s sister Adeline and farms in Northern Iowa, fell 27 feet while working in the barn on Tuesday night. Initially, he was taken to the hospital in Fort Dodge; but the orthopedic surgeon [...]
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I’m not going to bother with build up. Fred’s visa was denied. The last question on Fred’s application (which we filled out months ago when we first made the appointment) asked if Fred was related to or engaged to anyone living in the U.S. We paused in our progress, recognizing what such an answer could [...]
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(From Elisabeth Elliot’s These Strage Ashes: Is God Still in Charge? , p.124-7) The events of the preceding day stayed vividly in my mind for a long time. It had been, I wrote to my parents, “the most nightmarish day of my life.” As we walked home in the rain from the graveyard, it seemed [...]
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Yesterday was an important day for us. It began a month ago when Fred was unexpectedly offered a temporary position with Mongeral Seguros e Providências. Impressed with his work and attitude, the company created a new position for him to keep him on staff, and yesterday Fred was contracted as an administrative assistant. This is a tremendous blessing as [...]
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Almighty and eternal God, You are hidden from my sight: You are beyond the understanding of my mind: Your thoughts are not as my thoughts: Your ways are past finding out. Yet You have breathed Your Spirit into my life: Yet You have formed my mind to seek You: Yet You have inclined my heart [...]
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Oh, for more time to write… Internet connection would be nice, too. I’ve been house-sitting for the past two weeks, so once again, I find myself without web access. It’s not that I spend time surfing (Who has time for that anyway?), but I do try to keep up with my correspondence. Try, of course, [...]
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